The end of the world has never looked so good
celebrates his first anniversary at the Paris-based luxury house with a collection that considers his place in its future. “I was thinking about the future and imagining a Dior exhibition 50 years from now,” he explained during a preview for yesterday's Spring/Summer 20 show.
Against a backdrop of the climate crisis and the very real threat of life as we know it ending, there’s an understandable undercurrent of existential angst and end-of-days ennui running through many of our favourite designers’ minds. This was certainly hinted at the Pepto Bismal-hued dystopianDesigner of Dreams
exhibition broke attendance records in London. Here, as the past, present and future melded like Dali’s, a multidisciplinary American artist famed for his warped architectural designs and installations that examine the archaeology of the present. Throughout the show Kim and Daniel explored the notion of the relic and explored the almost human quality that the life every haute couture maison takes on. From the vast logos outside the show, to the ephemera of Christian Dior’s office -- all reimagined in geological material -- the pair pondered just what Dior might look like thousands of years down the line. Dior, the show seemed to say, will outlive us all.
But Kim has always understood this. “I'm the designer for Dior but I work for them,” he explained in a
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